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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 23, 2024
Oracle International Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Vijayendra Lakkundi, Hyderabad, IN;
Nagarajan Muthukrishnan, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Ravi Thammaiah, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Oracle International Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed is an improved approach to manage hierarchical metadata for a database system. A hierarchical metadata structure pertaining to a hierarchical object structure of a multitenant database architecture for a plurality of tenants may be maintained where the multitenant database architecture comprising a container database (CDB) that includes a pluggable database (PDB). A request for an access to a metadata object in the hierarchical metadata structure for one or more database objects in the container database may be received. In response to the request for the access to the metadata, access to at least a portion of the hierarchical metadata structure is provisioned.